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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting For/While Loop to Increment Filenames in a Script Post 302724409 by metallica1973 on Wednesday 31st of October 2012 03:10:53 PM
Old 10-31-2012
Got it with a little help

Code:
inc_log()
{
for file in ${man_log}*
do
count=$((count + 1))
cp $man_log $man_log$count
done
}

man_log=/home/user/manager.log

	if [ -s "manager.log" ]; then

	inc_log

	echo "finished"
fi 
exit

Code:
./script
./script
./script
./script
./script

ls -ltr
-rw-r--r--  1 root  root    23 Oct 31 15:04 manager.log1
-rw-r--r--  1 root  root    23 Oct 31 15:04 manager.log2
-rw-r--r--  1 root  root    23 Oct 31 15:04 manager.log3
-rw-r--r--  1 root  root    23 Oct 31 15:05 manager.log4
-rw-r--r--  1 root  root    23 Oct 31 15:05 manager.log5

I needed to add the wildcard in the "for" statement, otherwise only the current manager.log is taken in account. Thanks for all the help.
Last edited by metallica1973; 10-31-2012 at 06:41 PM..
 

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gnome-wm(1)							   User Commands						       gnome-wm(1)

NAME

       gnome-wm - launch the GNOME window manager

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-wm [--default-wm wm] [--sm-client-id id]

DESCRIPTION

       gnome-wm  is  a	shell script which launches the GNOME window manager, metacity. The user may specify that another window manager should be
       launched, either by using the --default-wm option or by setting the WINDOW_MANAGER environment variable.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       --default-wm wm	       Launch the window manager wm.

       --sm-client-id id       Specify the session management ID with which the window manager should be launched.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Launching the dtwm window manager using --default-wm

       example% gnome-wm --default-wm dtwm

       Example 2: Launching the dtwm window manager using WINDOW_MANAGER

       example% WINDOW_MANAGER=dtwm gnome-wm

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of gnome-wm: NLSPATH.

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FILES

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       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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